video-understanding

Amazon Bedrock has introduced three distinct video analysis workflows that leverage multimodal foundation models to extract insights from video content at scale. The approaches—frame-based, shot-based, and multimodal embedding—are designed for different use cases and cost-performance trade-offs, with open-source reference implementations available on GitHub.

An international research team released the largest video reasoning dataset to date—roughly 1,000 times larger than previous alternatives. Testing reveals that state-of-the-art models including Sora 2 and Veo 3.1 substantially underperform humans on reasoning tasks, suggesting the limitation isn't data scarcity but architectural constraints.